A survey of the history of the Papacy in the Modern World from the eighteenth–Century Enlightenment to the death of Pius XII in 1958.  The unit will trace the growing role of the papacy in the life of the Church and its reaction to challenging movements such as the French Revolution; democracy; nationalism; the ‘Social Question’ and modern thought. Attention will also be given to its role in Missionary endeavours, the liturgical movement, the arts and sciences and international affairs.

Undergraduate Prerequisites

Graduate and Postgraduate Prerequisites (CH344)

CH350 or CH351

Requirements

2 hours per week

Undergraduate Assessment

Grduate and Postgraduate Assessment (CH344)

Bibliography

• Atkin, Nicholas, and Frank Tallett.  Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism since 1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Berger, Stephan, ed. A Companion to Nineteenth Century Europe. Blackwell Companions to European History. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
• Chadwick, Owen. A History of the Popes 1830–1914. Oxford History of the Christian Church. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Collins, Roger.  Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
• Dowd, Christopher. Rome in Australia: The Papacy and Conflict in the Australian Catholic Missions, 1834–1884. Studies in the History of Christian Thought. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
• Duffy, Eamon. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes. Yale: Yale University Press, 2006.
• Kent, Peter C., and John F. Pollard, eds. Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age. Santa Barbara CA: Praeger, 1994.
• O'Malley, John W. A History of the Popes: From Peter to the Present. New York: Sheed & Ward, 2010.
• Pollard, John F. Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican 1850–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.